The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.
The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.
Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.
I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.
I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.
I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.
I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.
What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.
Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.
